Cleaning attachment for oil-cans.



PATENTED MAY 12, 1903. F. W. SKINNER. CLEANING ATTAGHMENT FOR OIL CANS.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT 8, 1&02

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PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK W. SKINNER, OF VALLEY FALLS, RHODE ISLAND.

CLEANING ATTACHMENT FOR OIL-CANS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No; 727,855, dated May 12, 1903.

Application filed September 8, 1902. Serial No. 122,612. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK W. SKINNEB, a citizen of the United States, residing at Valley Falls, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cleaning Attachments for Oil-Cans, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an attachment for oil-cans; and the object of my invention is to provide a device for cleaning the interior. duct of the discharge-tube, so that the oil will exterior surface of the said discharge-tube,

as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings forming a part of this application, Figure 1 illustrates a perspective view of my cleaning attachment. Fig. 2 represents my device as secured in position upon the discharge-tube of an oil-can. Fig. 3 is an enlarged top plan sectional view taken in line X X of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4. represents my device with its cleaner-rod inserted in the end portion ofthe discharge-tube.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts in the several views of the drawings.

A represents my attachment as a whole comprising a round wire rod having its middle portion bent outwardly in a circular form, as at a, and from which portion two branches of the rod extend parallel to each other, as a a, one of said branches having a spo0n-shaped end, as at a and the end of the opposite branch terminating in apoint, as at a Near the circular portion a of the rod each of the O erforation, and these flat portions of the r branches at a is made fiat and provided with rod form bearing-surfaces to receive therounded end of a U-shaped clamp 12, which is provided with perforationsof the same size and location as the perforations in the said flat portions of the rod, and through each of the perforations rivets c 0 enter and firmly secure the said rod to the said clamp.

. d is the nozzle or discharge-tube of the or dinary oil-can d.

When the interior duct of the dischargetube has become clogged with dust or grit,so as to impede the outward flow of the oil from the tube, the branch of the rod having the pointed end a is forced within the tube, and by the circularly-bent portion a, which acts as a grip for the user, the said portion of the rod is moved up and down until the duct is made free for the passage of oil.

In the lubricating parts of machinery Where.

forced and hold by frictional contact upon the surface of thadischarge-tube of the oil can.

My invention forms a very convenient at tachment for oil-cans, is simple, durable, and inexpensive to manufacture.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In combination with an oil-can provided with a discharge-tube, of a vertically-extend ing cleaner-rod, and a pair of flaring grasp ing-arms made of a single piece of resilient material'and rigidly secured to the central portion of said cleaner-rod, adapted to clamp upon the discharge-tube of the oil-can, as shown and described. I

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FREDERICK W. SKINNER.

Witnesses:

V JAs. F. GOULD,

THOMAS W. LOCKE. 

